I’m talking about hypotheticals. Unless you drill the limitations of a situation into people’s noggins over years of experience, they seem incapable of accepting the hypothetical and must also blurt out “well no I wouldn’t do either!” as if they’d made some great breakthrough against the original idea.
It’s probably more accurate and general to say people tend towards the box of their lived experiences. Make the box bigger and they will be stuck deep inside it, but make it smaller and they will keep pushing out. But in my experience the box is usually smaller larger than bigger.
I agree. This is especially apparent reading the discussions people are having about AI here. To me it seems like most are completely uncapable of entertaining the idea of an actually competent AI system that does what its told and does it well. They just look at this thru the lens of what today’s generative AI is capable of and because it’s flawed they then conclude that this is an inherent feature of any AI system and will always be so.
AI is especially wild because there’s like a massive improvement every three months that completely breaks people’s ideas of what it is capable of every time